Mark Cuban

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or dont do it.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

Its not about money or connectionsits the willingness to out work and outlearn everyone...And if it fails you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.

Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

You never win any games you dont play.

It takes time its a grind. There are no shortcuts. Youve got to grind and grind.

If you're not positive energy, you're negative energy.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

I think political people are afraid of me.

Once you are prepared and you think you have every angle of preparation covered you have to go for it.

In business one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

Its not about money or connections its the willingness to out work and outlearn everyon. And if it fails you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.